KATHMANDU, JULY 6
The parliamentary special committee on federalism implementation study and monitoring has started studying the political, legal, and administrative difficulties seen in the implementation of federalism in the past five years.
The special committee was constituted in the second week of June under the convenorship of National Assembly member Khimlal Devkota. It was tasked with studying all aspects - political, fiscal, administrative and structural - in connection with implementation of federalism, and to submit a report.
The committee has been instructed to submit a report after completing study within four months. National Assembly members Prakash Pantha, Dr Bimala Rai Poudyal, Udaya Bahadur Bohara, Maya Prasad Sharma, Ram Chandra Rai and Pramila Kumari are members of the committee. It had started its works from June 10. So far, it has held 12 meetings.
In a press conference organised here today, Committee Convenor Devkota said so far discussions on the implementation of federalism had been held with Constituent Assembly members, ministers of various ministries, secretaries, chief secretaries of the provincial governments and office-bearers of the Natural Resources and Fiscal Commission.
Devkota said they would provide recommendation for making the federal system effective and result-oriented by studying the status of implementation of political, administrative and fiscal federalism.
According to him, the committee will hold discussions with the local and provincial level people's representatives, office chiefs, civil society and private sector, among others, in all the seven provinces and collect feedbacks and suggestions.
A version of this article appears in the print on July 7, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
